Electric Locomotives - Germany: Illustrated History Books & Guides (1/3)

Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB (Lok-Legenden)

Hardly any other type of locomotive is as popular as the Swiss crocodiles, which owe their nickname to their characteristic appearance and to their long presence in everyday railway life.

From 1920 onwards, they played a key role in traction on the Gotthard for several decades. But the hard-to-miss "crocodiles" were also in tireless use on other railway lines from the very beginning, mainly pulling heavy and long freight trains. This made the locomotives synonymous with power, reliability and durability.

This volume of locomotive legends describes the history, development and use in words and pictures.

Pages of the book "Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB"

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Author:	Hans-Bernhard Schönborn
Details:	128 pages, 8.25 x 6.7 in (21 x 17 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	35 b&w and 113 color photos, 9 drawings
Language:	German
Publisher:	Transpress (D, 2014)
Series:	Lok-Legenden
ISBN:	9783613714823

Altbau-Elektroloks

The fifties and sixties: On the still relatively few electrified lines of the Bundesbahn, in addition to the first new-build machines, old electric locomotives still dominate the scene - locomotives that date back to the Reichsbahn era or were even designed or built by the state railways.
But there were also some locomotives that were rebuilt in the fifties due to a lack of new designs ready for production: E 04, E 16, E 17, E 18, E 19, E 32, E 44, E 60, E 63, E 52, E 75, E 91, E 93 and E 94, unusual types such as the E 80, E 170 or the battery-powered small locomotives, and also 50 Hz machines in the Höllental.

For this book, Dr. Rolf Brüning has compiled a good hundred photographs from his unique color slide archive, which take us back 40 or 50 years to a long-gone era of railways. In introductory texts, the author explains the technical development that led to these machines.

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Author:	Rolf Brüning
Details:	108 pages, 8.7 x 9 in (22 x 24 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	100 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	DGEG Medien GmbH (D, 2016)
ISBN:	9783937189192

Die Ellok-Baureihen E 01 und E 71¹ - Entwicklung, Einsatz und Verbleib der ES 9-19 und EG 511-537

In March 1914, the Royal Prussian State Railway put its first series-produced electric locomotives into operation. This book is a comprehensive review of the locomotive history of that time.
The reader not only learns a lot about the first Prussian series-produced electric locomotives ES 9 to 19 (from 1926 series E 01), EG 511 to 537 (from 1926 series E 71¹) and the EB 1 to 3 drive frames (decommissioned in 1922) that were related to freight locomotives, but the authors also convey interesting facts about the "companions" that accompanied them at home and abroad, as well as the technology typical of the time.

The paths of the two series are traced in detail and placed in a historical context. While the E 01 series (ex ES 9 to 19) ended its career in 1929, the small, indestructible freight train locomotives of the E 71¹ series began their career in the Wiesen- and Wehratal valleys in Baden after operations in central Germany, Silesia and Bavaria at the beginning of the 1930s.

The scheduled service for the E 71¹ series only ended after 45 years of service, in 1959. On both sides of the German-German border, their significance for the history of technology was recognized, in the east with the restored E 71 30 in the Dresden Transport Museum, in the west with the E 71 19 (now in Koblenz-Lützel) and the E 71 28 (now in Berlin).

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Author:	Peter Glanert, Wolfgang-Dieter Richter, Thomas Borbe
Details:	192 pages, 11.6 x 8.7 in (29.5 x 22 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	180+ photos and 64 drawings
Language:	German
Publisher:	VGB GmbH (D, 2014)
ISBN:	9783837512588

Elektrische Lokomotiven - Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Deutsche Bundesbahn

The work by Dieter Bäzold and Günther Fiebig not only provides an overview of the general development, but also presents a detailed description of all electric locomotives manufactured in Germany by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bundesbahn.
In chronological order, both individual and standard locomotives are presented in detail in their design features.

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Author:	Dieter Bäzold, Günther Fiebig
Details:	415 pages, 8.5 x 7.7 x 1.38 in (21.5 x 19.5 x 3.5 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	361 photos and drawings
Language:	German
Publisher:	Transpress (D, 2023)
Series:	Deutsches Lok-Archiv
ISBN:	9783613716957